Research into the regulation of gene expression experienced a significant breakthrough with the discovery of microRNA, small RNA molecules that do not code for proteins but control their translation.

Researchers at University of Oxford have been awarded funding by Cancer Research UK to develop a vaccine to prevent ovarian cancer. The team will receive up to £600,000 (US$784,000) for the study over ...

Kurma Partners has announced the first closing of its Biofund IV at €140 million (US$154.5 million) and is pressing ahead to a final close of €250 million this time next year. The fund will make 16 to ...

Flagship Pioneering and Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) are jointly committing up to SGD100 ...

Tokyo-based Olympus Corp. launched a new video imaging platform called Visera S (OTV-S500) in Europe and select Asian ...

The increasing knowledge on how protein tau is organized in live cells has shown that the protein forms nanometer-sized ...

Exact Sciences Corp.’s Cologuard Plus received U.S. FDA pre-market approval as a non-invasive colorectal cancer home ...

Immune checkpoint inhibitors targeting the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway are widely used in cancer immunotherapy, but poor tissue ...

Researchers in the U.K. have succeeded in reverse engineering the defective cryptic splicing that drives amyotrophic lateral ...

Med-tech fundraising saw strong growth in 2024, with companies raising $21.24 billion in the first three quarters, a 48% increase over the $14.36 billion raised during the same period in 2023. However ...

Organox Ltd. gained approval from Health Canada for its Metra system for use during liver transplantation. The system utilizes normothermic machine perfusion to maintain donor livers under physiologic ...

Medtronic plc reported a voluntary recall of certain insulin pumps after customers said a single drop, bump, or physical impact could shorten their battery life.